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2011 Press Releases:
Skycasters Satellite Internet News


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Date Headline
12/29/2011 Skycasters Adds New Antenna for Expanded Satellite Internet Teleport Infrastructure
Akron, OH - December 29, 2011 Skycasters, an industry leader in broadband satellite Internet solutions, has reached a major milestone in their teleport expansion project, and have erected a new 8.1m uplink antenna. The new antenna has significantly higher gain than their existing 6.3m antennas, and will add additional reliability and redundancy to their expanding satellite Internet teleport infrastructure.
04/21/2011 Flying High with Skycasters
Akron, OH – April 21, 2011 Paula Bernier, Executive Editor, IP Communications Magazines, publisher of online magazines TMCnet and INTERNET TELEPHONY, interviewed Skycasters President, Mike Kister for the March 2011 issue of INTERNET TELEPHONY:
Given companies have come to rely on broadband for many business-critical functions, more applications are moving to the cloud, and it’s important to stay connected when disaster strikes, satellite seems to make more sense today than ever.
03/14/2011 Skycasters Showcases Emergency Response Satellite Internet at the 30th Annual SATELLITE 2011 Conference
Akron, OH – March 14, 2011 Skycasters, an industry leader in broadband satellite Internet solutions, will be exhibiting at the 30th Annual SATELLITE 2011 Conference at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center March 15 – 17, 2011.
02/21/2011 Spring 2011 Sun Interference Starts in February
Akron, OH – February 21, 2011 It’s just about that time of year again when the sun is tanning the backside of the satellites and everyone experiences a short solar outage. Called sun interference or sun fade, this occurs when the sun aligns with the satellite and the receive satellite antenna, and the sun’s radiation simply overpowers all other signals.
02/11/2011 ILCHASE Fails Over to Satellite in 2011 Blizzard
Mark, IL – February 11, 2011 In the first three days of this month, the US Central Plains and New England experienced blizzard like conditions, with an average 18 inches of snowfall across the area. Tens of thousands of residents and businesses experienced power and Internet outages. One such business, the Illinois Chasers of Adverse and Severe Weather, or ILCHASE, headquartered in Mark, Illinois, lost its cable Internet access.
01/19/2011 MP Antenna Partners with Skycasters
North Ridgeville, OH – January 19, 2011 MP Antenna chose to partner with Skycasters on MP Antenna’s High Gain 2.4 GHz Multi-Polarized Omni-Directional 8dBi WiFi antenna after Skycasters tested and selected the 8dBi for improving its Mobile Satellite Trailer WiFi reach.
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